A month after the sexual abuse and extortion of women in Pollachi came to light, an advocate in Perambalur district has reported a similar case. In a petition to the police, he has alleged that a group of men have been abusing, video-recording and blackmailing over 20 women in the town. The district police have confirmed to TNM that the advocate's petition has been accepted and that the matter is under investigation.

3. Cops ‘Force’ Man to Fish Out Body From Canal, Suspended as He Drowns

Three cops of Karnal police have been suspended for allegedly forcing a person to fish out the body of man from Western Yamuna Canal. The man, who wasn’t a professional diver, drowned in the canal while doing their bidding.

The Karnal SP has suspended sub-inspector Krishan Kumar and head constables Bijender Singh and Krishan, who were posted at Madhuban police station.

A man brutally assaulted his wife at the Government General Hospital in Chittoor on Sunday allegedly for refusing to have sex with him. The 34-year-old woman, who is an unconscious state, is being treated in the ICU in the same hospital. Doctors have said that her condition is still critical.

Chittoor Town SI Purushottam Reddy, who has been handling the case, said that the husband was taken into custody on Monday evening. “By the time I reached the hospital on Monday morning around 8:30am, she was already being treated. The sanitation supervisors and security guards of the hospital had attended to her and taken her to ICU,” said Reddy.

5. Sitting on a Time Bomb, Say Shopkeepers as Fire Breaks out in Congested South Mumbai Market

A fire broke out at a shopping centre on the busy and congested Abdul Rehman Street in South Mumbai on Monday, a fire brigade official said.

Around four to five shops inside the Super Shopping Centre, located near Jumma Masjid, were gutted in the blaze, which reportedly broke out following a short circuit in an air conditioner in one of the shops. No casualties were reported.

The police on Monday night arrested a 22-year-old man for allegedly molesting a class 9 student in Gurugram’s Sector 14.

Earlier in the day, the girl’s mother had filed a police complaint alleging that the man, who lived in their neighbourhood, had molested her daughter and used to follow her when she went to school or coaching classes. The police said the girl had warned off the accused several times.

A policeman was killed and 15 others – 10 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers and five members of the poll staff – were injured in two accidents on Tuesday in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district.

Police said a bus carrying poll staff met with an accident in Zalangam village of Kokernag area, resulting in the death of a policeman and injuries to five others travelling in the bus.